{"id":29665,"date":"2020-12-02T13:56:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T21:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29665"},"modified":"2020-12-03T13:57:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T21:57:10","slug":"pelosi-statement-on-sentencing-of-hong-kong-pro-democracy-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29665","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Statement on Sentencing of Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel-pane pane-node-created\">\n<div class=\"pane-content\"><em>Washington, D.C. DECEMBER 2, 2020\u00a0 \u2013 Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after pro-democracy leaders Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow and Ivan Lam were sentenced to 13.5 months, 10 months and 7 months in prison, respectively, for their role in protests in Hong Kong, with the possibility of longer sentences for additional charges:<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-body\">\n<div class=\"pane-content\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>\u201cChina\u2019s brutal sentencing of these young champions of democracy in Hong Kong is appalling.\u00a0 This injustice is clear proof that Beijing will stop at nothing to stamp out dissent and to destroy the freedoms and real autonomy guaranteed to the people of Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States Congress on a bipartisan and bicameral basis remains seriously concerned about the alleged mistreatment of Joshua Wong in prison, including his placement in solitary confinement.\u00a0 At the same time, we are disturbed by the prospect of China pressing additional charges against these activists, which could result in additional years of jail time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States Congress has always spoken with one voice in defense of those oppressed by Beijing and in support of freedom, justice and real autonomy for the people of Hong Kong.\u00a0 We call on all freedom-loving people around the world to join us in denouncing this unjust sentencing and China\u2019s widespread assault on Hong Kongers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. DECEMBER 2, 2020\u00a0 \u2013&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29666,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29665\/revisions\/29666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}